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[image:] Robert G. Haight Robert G. Haight

Title: Research Forester
Unit: People and Their Environments: Social Science Supporting Natural Resource Management and Policy
Previous Unit: Social & Economic Dimensions of Ecosystem Management
Address: Northern Research Station
1992 Folwell Ave
St. Paul, MN 55108
Phone: 651-649-5178
E-mail: Contact Robert G. Haight

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Education

  • Ph.D. Forest Management, Oregon State University, 1985.
  • B.S. Forestry, University of California, Berkeley.  1978.

Civic & Professional Affiliations

Society of American Foresters, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

Current Research

I am a native Californian who became interested in forestry and resource management while attending the University of California, Berkeley. My early experiences in northern California as a logger for a large forest products company and a silviculturist for the Plumas National Forest shaped my interest in public resource management policy and economics, and I earned a Ph.D. in forest management from Oregon State University in 1985. Since joining Forest Service Research in 1987, I have studied public policy issues involving the economics of wildlife protection, metropolitan open space protection, wildfire management, and invasive species management. My approach is to build models of resource management problems and use simulation and optimization methods to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative policies.

Why is This Important

My work is important because public resource managers allocate significant resources to protect endangered species, open space, and forests from unwanted disturbances associated with urban development, wildfire, and invasive species. My work provides information to decision makers about the benefits and costs of alternative protection strategies.

Future Research

I am interested in the optimal control of invasive species and beginning to build and analyze models to help allocate scarce resources among the four invasive species management strategies: prevention, detection, control, and rehabilitation. I am aware of the inherent uncertainties of the invasion process and have promising ideas about how to model this uncertainty and measure its effects on resource allocation strategies.

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Last Modified: 11/19/2008